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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Americas > Brazil > Oro Win

Oro Win

A language of Brazil

ISO 639-3orw

Population  5 (1996 SIL). Ethnic population: 55 (1998).
Region  Pacaas-Novos River headwaters, a tributary of MamorĂ© River, along the Brazil-Bolivia border.
Language map  Brazil, reference number 126
Dialects  Related to Tora [trz], Itene [ite] (More), Pakaasnovos [pav] (Wari), but not mutually inherently intelligible.
Classification  Chapacura-Wanham, Madeira
Language use  Older adults. Also use Pakaasnovos [pav].
Comments  VOS. Nearly extinct.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Ladefoged, Peter and Daniel Everett. 1996. "The status of phonetic rarities."